Ok, grappling with this xmodmap issue has caused me to revisit the issue of inputting non-latin characters under Linux, something I dealt with a few years ago. Finally, with helpful hints gotten in on-line forums and reading various README files, I had some success. I observe now that I displayed a bit of prescience back then as well.

This example uses CentOS 6 so one of the issues you will need to be aware of is SELinux. The great aspect of a slave server is that you can update your primary DNS server and it automatically update the slave.

BackTrack 5, a Linux distribution designed for pentesters and security professionals or those who want to mess with all the best security and penetration testing applications the free software community has to offer.This latest article provides the steps you need to dual-boot it and Ubuntu 12.04 on a computer with a single hard drive.

The Kickstarter fund drive for Wasteland 2 has now passed the magic $1.5 million marker which means that a Linux (and Mac) port is officially a go. Brian Fargo actually jumped the gun a and in a tweet commited to the ports about a hundred thousand dollars before the the goal was met.

Introduced by Softpedia last month, the final version of the Comice OS 4 Linux operating system, built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment and customized to look like Mac OS, has arrived today, March 23rd.

Developers have got to make a living too- if they’re offering free stuff, they put ads there. That’s ok. But the problem arises when these apps appear everywhere and access personal information to pass on to advertisers.

Sony has reportedly submitted a filing for its first Chromebook to FCC. FCC E-filing is showing a Sony device which fits the bill of a Chromebook. Any doubt over it being a Chromebook is removed on the 'manual' page which specifically points at ChromOS.

The report of KDE e.V. for the fourth quarter of 2011 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported in the last 3 months of last year. The report has a message from the President of the Board reflecting on the first 15 years of KDE and looking forward to more opportunities. There are stories about exciting product announcements and the various sprints that produced exceptional results. Read the full report (PDF).read more

This feature focuses in selecting the finest Linux applications that are targeted at guitarists. All of the software featured here is released under freely distributable licenses, to download at no charge, and are easy to install and intuitive to use.

Unity 5.8 has landed into Ubuntu 12.04 with new features and fixes. It seems lots of work has gone under the hood as I have never seen Unity interface so fast. Its just flying and for a moment I really thought that its Unity 2D as after Unity 5.8 update, the dash menu got lots of UI tweaks and it now looks very much like Unity 2D's dash. There is also improved multi-monitor support as an option to display either a single launcher or a launcher on each display has been added.

Bodhi Linux is a lightweight distribution based on Ubuntu which uses the E17 version of the Enlightenment desktop. It has a pretty cool feature called profiles which can change the look and feel of Bodhi in an instant

The story of Drupal is one great open-source success story. Buytaert's life kinda parallels Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg without the mean attitude and lawsuits (if the Hollywood version can be believed). Buytaert also started Drupal in college and it took him years to figure out how to make a living from it. Linus Torvalds even helped him figure out how.

According to some FCC leak and rumoring, it looks like Sony is about to release a new Chromebook and the FCC info may point towards it running on an ARM Processor! T25 is the leaked processor info, that sound like the Tegra 250 T25.